[P2P-F] Fwd: Bot Populi's Special May Day Series

Fri May 1 09:28:14 CEST 2020

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From: IT for Change <itfc at itforchange.net>
Date: Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:20 PM
Subject: Bot Populi's Special May Day Series
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A deep dive into the intersections of labor, the digital economy, and the
Covid pandemic.

*Mayday!*

We might only be at the cusp of the economic crisis that has been brewing
within the belly of the Covid pandemic, but it is already starting to blow
up around the world. In this special series on Bot Populi, we bring you a
range of incisive analyses that combine critique, prognosis, hope, and even
anger. Check them out here
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Our effort has been to take a deep dive into the intersections of labor,
the digital economy, and the Covid pandemic through engaging and critical
long and short reads and interviews that delve into various facets of
worker rights in the global economic context.

This crisis has seen millions across nations, rich and poor, sliding into
unemployment over the past six weeks. Livelihoods that are not essential in
a time of global lockdown are no longer viable. Informal workers at the
very edges – farm and wage workers, and micro entrepreneurs – are
struggling with lack of access to work. Even as precarity looms large over
their future, gig workers are battling it out on the frontlines as the
world orders in everything.

Never has there been a more important or urgent time to talk about labor.

Scroll down for highlights from our series. Also check out more articles
over at Bot Populi’s New Precariat track
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*Feature articles*
‘Crowds as Code’ in the Global Data Value Chain
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Kai-Hsin Hung, a PhD Scholar at HEC Montreal, takes us behind the scenes
into the hidden world of data-based microworkers whose labor fuels some of
the world’s most complex and elegant AI solutions.

A 3-Point Agenda for Platform Workers; as if the South Matters
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Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami of IT for Change outline a new labor
rights agenda for platform workers—an alternative to the mainstream model,
defined and led by the Global South.

Networked Desolation in Indonesia’s Platform Tourism Industry
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Caitlin Bentley, Research Fellow at Australian National University walks us
through the cracks in Indonesia’s travel industry in the aftermath of
tourism platforms and now, the Covid crisis.

A Catch-22 for On-Demand Cleaners in the Philippines
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Jessamine Pacis of the Foundation for Media Alternatives identifies a
paradox of sorts of on-demand domestic work amid this crisis - greater
emphasis on cleanliness and greater precarity for workers.

How Public Sector Workers and Unions can Shape the Digital Economy
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Parminder Jeet Singh of IT for Change argues for collective ownership
rights over data by communities and workers as a vital means through which
to shape a greater role for the public sector in a digital society.

Precarity in Times of Pandemic: Covid-19 and the Crisis in India’s Informal
Labor Markets
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What happens when the world’s second most populous country goes on lock
down. Sohel Sarkar and Deepti Bharthur examine the ways in which the
pandemic has disrupted the livelihood’s of India’s vast informal labor
force.

*In conversation with...*
Securing Data and Labor Rights in the Post-Covid Digital Era
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Daniel Bertossa of Public Services International speaks to us about how the
Covid-19 crisis is precipitating an organic build-up of solidarity among
various worker movements and PSI's strategies to meet the challenges of the
post-Covid digital era.

Uncertainties Galore in the Post-Pandemic Labor Market
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Sabina Dewan of the Justjobs Network analyses the mid to long-term impact
of the pandemic on global labor markets, and the possible outcomes for a
post-Covid future of work.

It's a No-Win Situation for Gig Workers in the Covid-19 Moment
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Srujana Katta of the Fairwork Foundation takes us through the
organization’s latest report on platform responses to Covid, and the gap
between rhetoric and reality.

*An independent digital media space, Bot Populi examines the digital from a
social justice and global south perspective.*
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